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Philosophers, ministers, judges, novelists and historians have all taken a crack at defining “character.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

Philosophers then focus on their tense properties: is an event past, present or future?

From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2025

Philosophers and theologians adopted the Slavonic upiór to coin the English term “vampire.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

Philosophers love a married bachelor as a succinct example of a contradiction; so to honor that tradition, let’s assume the following:

From Scientific American • Oct. 16, 2023

Philosophers reduced the scope of their inquiries so much that Wittgenstein, the most famous philosopher of this century, said, “The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.”

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking